Head: Cyber Defense Center

The Cyber Defense Center of PostFinance is part of the centralized Security and monitors the entire cyber landscape. In a constantly changing threat situation, you and your team ensure that cyber threats are detected early, professionally handled, and effectively defended against. With your strategic foresight, your leadership experience, and your technical understanding, you continuously develop our Cyber Defense Center and actively shape the cyber security landscape of PostFinance. For this responsible task, we are looking for a committed personality who thinks about security in new ways and helps shape the future of our Cyber Defense Center.

Why you start with us

Time for recovery
6 weeks of vacation and the possibility of unpaid leave.

Flexible working models
Part-time, job sharing, and top sharing.

Individual development
Diverse training and further education offers, temporary job changes, and stages.

Modern working worlds
Modern workplaces, co-working in Bern and Zürich, as well as home office in many areas.

Maternity & paternity leave
18 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks paternity leave.

Health in focus
Preventive offers, ergonomic workplaces, and targeted support in case of longer absences.

Mobility offers
Free Halbtax or discounted GA as well as attractive bicycle, car sharing, and e-car offers.

Lived equality of opportunity
Among other things, through transparent salary information in our job advertisements.

What you can achieve

• You take overall responsibility for the Cyber Defense Center and continuously develop its vision, strategy, and performance
• Together with your team, you ensure the operation of the Cyber Defense Center – from security monitoring and event triage to incident handling and the management of on-call operations
• In the event of security-critical incidents, you coordinate the incident response and work closely with IT specialists as well as those responsible for emergency management
• Together with your team, you continuously develop the detection capabilities of the Cyber Defense Center and identify hidden threats early through targeted threat hunting
• You are responsible for the Cyber Threat Intelligence area and ensure that current threat information flows effectively into the detection and response processes
• You bear responsibility for the cyber defense platforms and their continuous development and, in close cooperation with engineering and operations, ensure their future viability
• You create transparency regarding the security status as well as the effectiveness of the Cyber Defense Center through meaningful and regular reporting

What you bring with you

• University degree in computer science, ideally with a specialization in cyber security, or comparable training
• Several years of leadership experience and the ability to successfully develop and lead teams in demanding situations
• Several years of practical experience in a Security Operations Center or Cyber Defense Center as well as an in-depth understanding of modern cyber security architectures
• Knowledge in Cyber Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, or Detection Engineering as a plus
• Calmness, decision-making ability, and sovereignty in critical situations
• Strong communication skills at different hierarchical levels